A/N: Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed the prologue! I hope the story can live up to the expectations and maybe even surpass them! Throughout the first few chapters, until our mystery woman remembers her real name, the name she goes by is italicized. For the record this story takes place after Journey's End but before End Of Time. And I'm not one for long chapters either!Enjoy!
Chapter 1
"Mrs. Wolf, here are your personal belongings. Everything that was found on you," Joan, the nurse, handed the woman a bag.
Mrs. Wolf dug through it. The clothes were stylish but she would obviously have to buy more soon. Buy…that meant she would need money. She groaned at the thought, then pulled out the blank piece of paper.
"They were going to throw it away but I stopped them. You never know what could trigger a memory," Joan explained kindly. Mrs. Wolf looked at the paper. There was something special about it. She knew deep down that this plain white slip of paper about the size of a credit card had a special purpose, but what?
She reached into the bag once again, shaking off the suspicions about the strange paper. Her hand touched something cold. She pulled it out. The ring. The ring given to her by a man who's name she didn't know, who's face she couldn't remember, and who's love she knew she missed. A tear slid down her cheek as she slipped the ring onto her finger. She wiped it away quickly and reached into the bag one last time.
"What about my, uh, watch?" Mrs. Wolf asked as soon as she realized the bag was now empty. A panic set in that she didn't understand. Something told her that it would be very bad for her "watch" to fall into the wrong hands.
"It's not in there? Strange," Joan began, "I know it was this morning. I double checked to make sure it was all there. What exactly is it anyways? Everyone says it's some kind of special watch but I don't think it is. It looks to big. And we couldn't figure out how to work it."
"I don't know. Just let me know if you find it. I really need it," the woman couldn't shake the feeling that something bad could happen if she didn't have that wa….it wasn't a watch…what was it? She shook her head and picked up the blank piece of paper again.
"Psychic paper…" a voice whispered. The woman looked around the room quickly. It had been a man's voice; just barely a whisper at all. Mrs. Wolf looked back at the paper and suddenly an idea came to her.
"Joan, would you call me a cab?"
"Sure, but, where are you gonna go? You don't remember anything," Joan reminded her gently.
"I wanna go to the bank. The biggest bank in Cardiff,"
Joan looked at Mrs. Wolf suspiciously, but didn't argue. She turned to walk out the door then stopped and looked back. "Have you decided on a first name? Or remembered yours?"
"The name Jackie's been running through my mind a lot," Mrs. Wolf stated.
"You think it's yours?"
"No, I don't think so. It feels more like, someone I knew," she explained carefully. "But I do like it."
"Jackie Wolf…sounds lovely to me," Joan smiled.
"Yea, I think I'll keep it, for now at least,"
"Good! One cab coming right up for you Jackie," Joan smiled and Jackie returned the smile as best as she could.
A few minutes later, she was in her cab headed for the International Bank of Cardiff, staring at the piece of "psychic paper". Joan had already paid for the cab with her own money. Jackie had thanked her intently and promised to repay her as soon as she could. The car stopped outside the bank.
"Here you go, mum," the driver announced. Jackie thanked him, then climbed out of the cab. She stood in front of the building, kissed the paper for good luck, and took a deep breath.
"Please let this work!" She whispered quietly to herself as she walked up the steps to the door.
Back at the hospital…
Joan stood at the nurses station filling out the last of the paperwork on Mrs. Jackie Wolf. The elevator doors opened and someone came bolting at the desk. Joan jumped, startled, then sighed, placing her hand over her heart. "Dr. Smith! You scared me half to death!"
"Nurse Redfern! I need to speak with the patient that was found with this!" Dr. Smith said as she laid the item on the desk.
"Hey! That was Mrs. Wolf's watch or whatever! Why do you have it?" Joan asked rather loudly.
"Nevermind that! I need to speak with her! Immediately!"
"Well you're too late. She just left and I don't know where she's going to be headed," Joan lied rudely. "Now if you don't mind, I have paperwork to file."
With that Joan walked away, folders in hand. Dr. Martha Smith reached into her pocket, pulled out her mobile, and hit speed-dial number 3.
"Jack? No, I was too late…I don't know who she was…The patient had amnesia, doesn't know a thing about herself…Yea, I think she's going by the name Wolf…Jack, are you still there? Hello?" Martha hung up the phone and mumbled to herself, "Who does he think he is? Hanging up on me…"
The End
A/N: That's chapter one! PLEASE REVIEW! Oh and "Nurse Joan Redfern" was the woman from Human Nature and The Family of Blood that John Smith fell in love with.
